9. EZ-Drive has successfully set up your hard drive. Remove any disk
from your floppy drive. Press
ESC
to exit and restart your system.
Your hard drive is now partitioned and formatted.
INSTALLING AN OPERATING SYSTEM FROM DISK
If you installed EZ-Drive on the hard drive, you must follow the
steps below to install DOS 5.0 and above, Windows 3.1x, Windows
for Workgroups, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2 2.1x, and OS/2
Warp from disk. If you did not install EZ-Drive, or used it only to
partition and format your hard drive, see your DOS manual for
installation instructions.
Caution: If you do not install DOS exactly as described below, the
DOS setup routine will reformat the hard drive to less than the full
capacity.
1. Remove any disk from the floppy drive.
2. Press
CTRL+ALT+DEL
to reboot the system. The following message
displays if EZ-Drive is installed on your hard drive.
EZ-Drive: Initializing. . .
EZ-Drive: Hold the
CTRL
key down for Status Screen or to boot
from a floppy...
3. Press and hold down the
CTRL
key. A status screen displays.
4. Read the screen prompt and type
A
.
5. Insert the DOS installation disk 1 into drive A. Press
ENTER
.
Follow the prompts to complete the installation.
UNINSTALLING EZ-DRIVE
This option removes EZ-Drive, and returns control of the drive to
your system BIOS.
Note: Before uninstalling EZ-Drive, make sure that you have properly
configured the BIOS to recognize the full drive capacity.
1. Insert the EZ-Drive disk into drive A.
2. From the A: prompt, type
ez
and press
ENTER
.
3. From the EZ-Drive Main Menu, select
Other Options
. From the
Installation Options screen, select
Change Installed Features
.
4. Select the drive you want to change.
5. From the Change Installed Features screen, select
Controlled by
EZ-Drive
. Press
ENTER
to toggle the selection to
Disabled
.
6. From the Change Installed Features screen, select
Save Changes
.
7. Press
ESC
to return to the Installation Options screen, and select
Uninstall EZ-Drive
.
8. A warning message displays. Type
Y
to remove EZ-Drive.
EZ-Drive is now uninstalled and the BIOS controls this drive.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A short list follows with common questions and solutions.
Q: Do I need to run FDISK and FORMAT?
A:
No. EZ-Drive is a faster, easier way to partition and format your
hard drive.
Q: I don’t see the full capacity of my hard drive when installing
DOS.
A: Two issues affect the installation of your hard drive: 1) some
systems do not properly recognize hard drives that have more than
4095 cylinders (drives larger than 2.1 GB); 2) most system BIOS
dated before 1994 don’t recognize drives greater than 528 MB. To
overcome this limitation, either install EZ-Drive or upgrade your
system BIOS. The following list provides the phone numbers for
common BIOS sources.
-OR
If you installed EZ-Drive and then incorrectly booted to your DOS
installation disks, you may have accidentally used DOS to overwrite
your EZ-Drive partitions. You need to use FDISK to delete your
DOS partitions and then re-install EZ-Drive. Be sure to follow the
instructions outlined in the preceding section Installing an Operating
System from Disk.
The following list provides the phone numbers for several BIOS
sources.
BIOS Sources:
Micro Firmware
(Phoenix BIOS only) (405) 321-8333
Phoenix
(617) 551-4000
Unicore
(508) 686-6468
Tips
Refer to your operating system manual to install operating
systems other than DOS.
See EZ-Drive online help for more information.
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